“I met this guy (the one with the mic) 14 years ago today and it was the best thing that ever happened to me, no contest,” he captioned the pic that showed Spiewak singing. “One of his greatest gifts to me is that he no longer takes me to sing karaoke. Also, I believe this was a selfie with an actual camera as our phones couldn’t do that back then hahaha!”

Parsons explained that he never mentioned his sexuality in interviews until the reporter “just point-blank asked, ‘Was working on The Normal Heart meaningful to you as a gay man?’ And I was like, ‘Well, yeah. Yeah.’ And what a wonderful … I can’t tell you what a wonderful thing that was, what a gift he gave me with one question. It was suddenly out there and official.”